so you won't get on an Airbus already?

Seriously, Airbus designs their planes so that the computers override the pilots. If the pilot wants to do something that the computer doesn't think they should do, then they have to enter override codes to be allowed to do so - which means, in an emergency, that the pilots have to spend precious time overriding the computer to resolve the emergency.

So honestly this is no surprise from Airbus; just a natural evolution of their already computer controlled systems with people as a secondary system.

No the instruments were right in that case; the pilots failed to use them properly.

However, his question was related to coming from SAS. SAS Scripting is not a general language eithers; it very much like using GNU Octave, Mathamatica, Matlab, and R - able to do some general things (open/read/write/close files) but is generally very data set oriented. So R is very much a suitable replacement.

B/c I don't do much in data modeling and working with that kind of data. The SAS scripts I wrote were over 10 years ago (2002). R isn't that old. I had one time which it might have (last summer), but then forgot about it. But for me that's 1 time in >10 years. If I needed to get into doing the stuff I did with SAS again, then yes I'd be looking at using R; but that's unlikely for me.

And yes, I have seen others use it so I know how much easier it would be for me to get into using R than updating myself on SAS and getting back into that.

The militar budget is a very small fraction of the entire budget - something like 4%.

If you want to talk about colossal budgets then look at entitlements - Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, etc - which compromise over 50%.

You analogy would be better if the mail had been left in the mailbox, which is regulated by the USPS and Federal Law, and which the postman has rights to access.

So it would be more like:

GS sends you a letter by mistake. They get a court order to order the USPS to remove it from the mailbox that they put in it, which happens to be yours. The postman then looks at the contents of the mailbox, verifies it is still there, and then removes it, sending it back to the sender or as otherwise directed by the courts. If, however, you checked your mail and took the mail out and into your house, then there is nothing for the USPS to do - it is no longer in the mailbox. If, however, you keep all your mail in your mailbox then the USPS would be within their ability to remove it from the mailbox.

So, to keep all your e-mail on Google's servers (or any ISPs servers) opens up the opportunity for this to happen. To keep the opportunity from happening then you need to download your e-mail from anyone else's servers and store it locally, deleting it from the providers servers after you have your local copy.

Alternatively, you can rent your own server and host your own e-mail server; but then you get into another situation in which the service you are renting from may be required by the courts to turn over the server to the courts, or get shutdown and you've now lost everything except what you had backups for. And yes, that has happened where the FBI shutdown a hosting provider and took all the servers in order to get to one of their clients; everyone else was screwed for a while.

Those phones were also largely ignored because of the expense. Of course, they didn't necessarily communicate to the cell towers like your phone does either - they probably went through the plane's standard communications mechanisms (f.e sat-com, etc.) and then got routed out to a phone system on the ground.

TSA is nearly enough for me to do that already.

The cost of training them to use R will be signifantly cheaper than what you are spending on the SAS licenses, which (last I knew) was a yearly purchase for each user.

And yes, while I have not used R myself, I would certainly recommend it over Python for this use case as it is very dedicated to doing the kinds of things that SAS is good at in a very efficient, friendly manner. I've seen a number of people use it to do some very neat statistical analysis, and their stuff was a lot simpler than the SAS scripts that I use to write years back.

Yes, and they will often blow the horn signaling that they are going to run the red light because they may not be able to stop in time either.

That said, even when driving a car, I find the counters very useful to help determine from the cross direction (e.g the direction already with the green light) when the light may change when I'm a good distance off. Sometimes they're very good predictors of the light about to go yellow so I can slow down instead.

Making them unreadable will have a great unintended consequence of pedestrians - especially smaller folks and children - unable to read them at all - you know, the very people they were put there to help protect.

IIRC per bulding GCC, I believe GCC does some of that as part of its build process - it builds a version of itself to build itself so the executable you finally get is built by itself not the system compiler. It's been a while, but I believe its doing that even if you are not doing cross-platform builds.

Sure you don't have a second compiler to compare against, but it's a pretty good guarantee that the compiler is what the code said it is.

Seems the stance changed/clarified since I last read up on it... http://www.slashgear.com/hp-wi...

There are many kinds of Charitable organizations. But 501(c)3 does not necessarily mean a Charity as you describe, though it does allow you to take donations. Most of the 501(c) organizations are pretty specific in what they may serve; 501(c)3 is the exception in that it is a lot more general.
The Wikipedia Article on 501(c) organizations is actually pretty good. Of course, you can also go directly to the IRS information too, but I find the Wikipedia article to be easier to read.

It won't take it out of the hands of lawmakers. It may make it harder to regulate, but they'll find a way - even if it is requiring all ISPs and Back bone providers to block it.

It's naive to think that just because its decentralized it is beyond the reach of government (or even corporations for that matter).

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